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🍲 𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗗 = 𝗦𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗢𝗟 👨🎓 Our food & wellness programs form the very backbone of support that disadvantaged students need in order to attend school. For many families living with food insecurity, this program makes the difference between sending their children to class, or out to work to help put food on the table. In the next few posts, we’ll examine the impact of this crucial program, from daily school meals to food banks that have been developed with a laser focus on families living with the direst food insecurity. In total across all our food programs last year ... 🍚 66 tons of rice 🍗 13 tons of meat 🥕 17 tons of vegetable ... were consumed. That’s a whole lot of nutrition going where it’s needed most! Watch the video to see where our food program first began: daily meals, available to the +700 students at our rural school locations. Because with full tummies, kids can stay in class and focus on the lesson. Because Food = School … and #schoolistheanswer 💛

How Many People Does the Olean Food Pantry Serve? That's a valid question, and you'd be SURPRISED to see the answer. Read our blog here to find out. https://lnkd.in/e6qGNWMe #OleanFoodPantry #ServeWithPurpose #HungerStats #LocalHungerStatistics #CommunitySupport #EndFoodInsecurity #LocalImpact #CommunityUnity #GrowingNeed #FightHungerTogether #CommunityAlly #ServeWithCompassion

How Many People Does the Olean Food Pantry Serve? That's a valid question, and you'd be SURPRISED to see the answer. Read our blog here to find out. https://lnkd.in/e6qGNWMe #OleanFoodPantry #ServeWithPurpose #HungerStats #LocalHungerStatistics #CommunitySupport #EndFoodInsecurity #LocalImpact #CommunityUnity #GrowingNeed #FightHungerTogether #CommunityAlly #ServeWithCompassion

I wrote for The Independent today about school food - and how I think the focus of the news coverage this week has been in the wrong place. We should be talking about government funding, and how the per-meal rate of £2.53 creates a barrier to great school food. I talk about * How food inflation, staff costs and energy bills have all skyrocketed, and the per meal rate is not keeping pace. * Why are we underfunding school food when the evidence suggests it has enormous health and economic benefits? * How not only is the eligibility criteria too low, but that we're missing children (250,000 of them) in failing to auto-enrol, (a letter co-signed by 130 representative from charities, councils and academia went to the Schools Minister today!) * How eligibility caps mean children who need it can't access free school meals (9 in 10 parents want to see immediate expansion of free school meals to every child living in poverty - new research from The Children's Food Campaign Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming). * How caterers and schools are working hard to make the most out of not enough money. * How government should be doing the work on understanding what a school food rate should be in 2024 (and a heads up to School Food Matters for actually being the ones doing the work on the cost of a school meal). * And finally how 89% of parents WANT schools to offer a good range of healthy meals (Shout out to Barbara Crowther and the Children's food campaign team for their work on this). Myles Bremner Abigail Page Cressida Pidgeon Rob Kidd Ali Morpeth (RNutr) Stephanie Slater Sean T. Shona Goudie ANutr FixOurFood Jonathan Bone #ISMD2024 https://lnkd.in/e7qgSi8m

#Churchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaint The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , encourages us to always prepare for adversity. #foodstorage is one critical way that one can really prepare for the coming days ahead. To make this possible, one must first understand what and how to store food. In storing food, one might want to consider the amount of food needed to be purchased and stores. This can be done by first checking how much is consumed daily, then you can now multiply by seven to know how much will be purchased for a week and then multiplied by 4, which will give you how much you did need for a month. It’s is very important to have in mind that cost of these food items depends on location or region. After this have been done, the next question is How to store them. This should be properly packaged and stored in a cool dry place so as to preserve them for the time it would be consumed. All of this his makes you a better Leader in your Home and community preparing you for emergencies and #foodshortage.

I recently learned that one in four U.S. workers reported experiencing food insecurity within the last year, according to The Cigna Group’s 2023 Vitality in America research. Learn more about how The Cigna Group is improving health equity in the white paper linked below. #WeAreTheCignaGroup #EachAndEvery

Everyone needs nutritious food to thrive. Yet, 1 in 5 households with children in the Chicago Metro area experience food insecurity. This September, for #HungerActionMonth, join us in our mission to #EndHungerNow. Visit https://bit.ly/3DCIs51 to find ways you can get involved. Every action―big or small―is one step closer to an America where no one is hungry. Feeding America

This is our third webinar in our school absenteeism series. Don't miss out on learnings on how to increase attendance at your school! #schoolabsenteeism #schoolmeals #foodsecurity #chronicabsenteeism #teachers #educators #schooladministrator

We are excited to introduce our new blog series, Just A Bite. Through these blogs we are excited to share fun and educational blogs based around the work that we do here at the United Food Bank of Plant City. Check out the first one, written by our President/ CEO, Mary Heysek. Understanding the Three Types of Food Insecurity will leave you understanding Food Insecurity in a simple yet informative way. Just A Bite Link: https://lnkd.in/eqP_5iSQ